Having spent so much time aligning our curriculum over the past half dozen years..... here we go again.... Our school system has set aside 14 hours of school time to bring this latest alignment into…Continue

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I have noticed that sometimes my student's struggle with Algebra concepts is in fact a maturity issue. The variable and slope concepts are particularly hard for them to digest. I am noticing that these concepts are being introduced earlier in the curriculum. I hope it will make a difference eventually. But sometimes it is a question of "a tincture of time"-- the students are just not mature enough to handle the abstract concepts. What do you do to deal with this?